Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
UCSF Library Newsletter
Author: Women Physician Pioneers of the 1960s
Author: M. D. Susan E. DetweilerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781735542324
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Women Physician Pioneers of the 1960s is a biographical account of a group of classmates from UCSF medical school whose lives and careers were tracked by social scientist Lillian Cartwright for 50 years. Using this data, collected through a series of interviews and surveys, one of the women, Susan Detweiler, authored this intimate account of what brought these women into medicine and how they pursued their careers.
UCSF News
Author: University of California, San FranciscoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
UCSF News
Author: University of California, San FranciscoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
University of California, San Francisco. School of Dentistry Yearbook
Author: University of California, San Francisco. School of DentistryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dentistry
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
UCSF Alumni News
Author: University of California, San Francisco. Alumni AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
UCSF Pharmacy Alumni Association Newsletter
Author: To Make the Wounded Whole
Author: Dan RoylesPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469659514
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
In the decades since it was identified in 1981, HIV/AIDS has devastated African American communities. Members of those communities mobilized to fight the epidemic and its consequences from the beginning of the AIDS activist movement. They struggled not only to overcome the stigma and denial surrounding a "white gay disease" in Black America, but also to bring resources to struggling communities that were often dismissed as too "hard to reach." To Make the Wounded Whole offers the first history of African American AIDS activism in all of its depth and breadth. Dan Royles introduces a diverse constellation of activists, including medical professionals, Black gay intellectuals, church pastors, Nation of Islam leaders, recovering drug users, and Black feminists who pursued a wide array of grassroots approaches to slow the epidemic's spread and address its impacts. Through interlinked stories from Philadelphia and Atlanta to South Africa and back again, Royles documents the diverse, creative, and global work of African American activists in the decades-long battle against HIV/AIDS.
The Telomere Effect
Author: Dr. Elizabeth BlackburnPublisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1455587966
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The New York Times bestselling book coauthored by the Nobel Prize winner who discovered telomerase and telomeres' role in the aging process and the health psychologist who has done original research into how specific lifestyle and psychological habits can protect telomeres, slowing disease and improving life. Have you wondered why some sixty-year-olds look and feel like forty-year-olds and why some forty-year-olds look and feel like sixty-year-olds? While many factors contribute to aging and illness, Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn discovered a biological indicator called telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes telomeres, which protect our genetic heritage. Dr. Blackburn and Dr. Elissa Epel's research shows that the length and health of one's telomeres are a biological underpinning of the long-hypothesized mind-body connection. They and other scientists have found that changes we can make to our daily habits can protect our telomeres and increase our health spans (the number of years we remain healthy, active, and disease-free). The Telemere Effect reveals how Blackburn and Epel's findings, together with research from colleagues around the world, cumulatively show that sleep quality, exercise, aspects of diet, and even certain chemicals profoundly affect our telomeres, and that chronic stress, negative thoughts, strained relationships, and even the wrong neighborhoods can eat away at them. Drawing from this scientific body of knowledge, they share lists of foods and suggest amounts and types of exercise that are healthy for our telomeres, mind tricks you can use to protect yourself from stress, and information about how to protect your children against developing shorter telomeres, from pregnancy through adolescence. And they describe how we can improve our health spans at the community level, with neighborhoods characterized by trust, green spaces, and safe streets. The Telemere Effect will make you reassess how you live your life on a day-to-day basis. It is the first book to explain how we age at a cellular level and how we can make simple changes to keep our chromosomes and cells healthy, allowing us to stay disease-free longer and live more vital and meaningful lives.
Memory Lives On
Author: Polina IlievaPublisher:
ISBN: 9781678089825
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
In the fall of 2019 the UCSF Archives & Special Collections, with the support of the UCSF AIDS Research Institute, organized an interdisciplinary symposium Memory Lives On: Documenting the HIV/AIDS Epidemic. This event marked the completion of a National Endowment for the Humanities funded project that was led by the UCSF Library in collaboration with the San Francisco Public Library (SFPL) and the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT) Historical Society to digitize archival collections related to the early days of the AIDS epidemic in the San Francisco Bay Area and to make them widely accessible to the public online. Documenting the history of HIV/AIDS and reflecting about the present and future of the epidemic is daunting. The ways in which we handle documentary evidence and produce knowledge from that evidence has profound effects on a wide range of social, economic, and health outcomes. The enormity and complexity of the stories and perspectives on the disease, which has affected millions of patients and communities around the world, present significant challenges that demand continual reexamination. The archivists and historians constantly struggle with questions such as "what do we collect, and from where" and "whose stories do we know best and whose voices are missing" from the historical record. The six essays presented here were drawn from the symposium, and they reflect on how researchers came to understand the disease, its impact on patients, institutions, communities, and cultures, and what historical documentation can teach us about future epidemics.